In a message dated 9/3/00 12:44:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> A tale told in the Life of Daig (Heist, Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae,
> 392-3) might be of interest. Ķenu, abbot of Clonmacnoise, was upset
> by Daig's mixed community and sent some of his monks to rebuke him.
> These men were won over by the chastity and holiness of the women,
> however, particularly since they could carry fire without any damage
> to themselves or their clothes and could carry water as if in a solid
> vase (Quarum quedam in sinu suo ignem sine ulla vestis lesione,
> quedam aquam velut in vase firmissimo, ad eos portavit). Other Irish
> virgins also proved their virtue by carrying fire without burning
> themselves or their clothes, which may be based on Proverbs 6.27, but
> the water feat is not as common. Betha Colaim Chille (Urbana, 1918):
> 167, tells of a bottomless vat able to hold water through the power
> of the saint.
>
> Maeve
In City of God, Saint Augustine has a story, which he seems to believe, about
a vestal virgin of Rome who proved her chastity by carrying water from the
Tiber river in a sieve, and none of the water leaked out.
pat sloane
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